• E.tv was the only provider to receive a licence, with the South African Mobile TV Consortium -- which had objected to the May 7 application deadline -- also missing out.

    CNN: FIFA looks to mobile TV as Africans stay away from World Cup

  • In fact, investors have begun to vote with their feet on a major partner of CNPC in Sudan's principal oil consortium -- Canada's largest private petroleum firm, Talisman Energy, Inc.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Bloom Comes Off the Rose of 'China, Inc.'

  • "We were expecting a statement to the stock market on Tuesday saying a consortium - partly French, partly Canadian - based in Aberdeen - will be taking over the UK search and rescue fleet starting from 2012, " he told BBC Wales.

    BBC: Plan for rescue fleet at RAF Valley to be sold

  • My travel, accommodation and associated costs were met by the Malaria Consortium. (Registered 8 October 2008) 14-25 September 2008, to Nigeria, Uganda and Southern Sudan to visit Malaria Consortium Projects in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

    BBC: Stephen O'Brien

  • Meanwhile, the RBS-led consortium of three banks - RBS, Belgian-Dutch group Fortis and Spain's Santander - are still considering their position, Fortis chairman Maurice Lippens said.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Barclays to table formal ABN bid

  • KEDO, the American-led consortium supposed to master-mind the project, and which also includes South Korea, Japan and the European Union, has to beg and scrape each year to find the cash for the 500, 000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil promised to North Korea to tide it over until electricity from the two new reactors comes on stream.

    ECONOMIST: America and North Korea

  • Swiss Re is selling its Fox-Pitt, Kelton investment bank to a consortium of Fox-Pitt managers and the investment firm J.

    FORBES: Great Time To Be Small

  • Weekend newspaper reports suggested an American-backed consortium had been working on a buy-out proposal.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | My Club | Newcastle United | Magpies confirm buy-out approach

  • IMF-led consortium, looks shaky: with public-spending cuts blocked by Congress, capital flight has resumed and the real again looks a candidate for devaluation (see article).

    ECONOMIST: A bad time to be an ostrich

  • But before that approval, the Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry consortium that promotes Wi-Fi technology, previously adopted most of the features already assumed to be part of the 802.11i standard and built them into a temporary set of enhancements that it called Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) which is available on most newer Wi-Fi access points.

    FORBES: Wireless Standards On The Move

  • ConocoPhillips - which leads the consortium that owns the field - said it was a matter for the operator, North Sea Production Company.

    BBC: Flare from platform

  • For instance, there are ideas recommended by the CREATE programme - the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity - which is funded by the UK's Department for International Development.

    BBC: Can private schools teach the world?

  • The aircraft is being built by a consortium of risk-sharing partners stretching from Italy to Japan.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • The project is supported by ESA and an industrial consortium specifically set-up by ESA for this purpose.

    UNESCO: Communication and Information

  • The Toshiba-led consortium that backs HD DVD had only one of the major studios -- General Electric Co.

    WSJ: Blu-ray or HD DVD: Which Side Are You On?

  • CORILA a consortium for co-ordinating research concerning the Venice lagoon system says that the lagoon is being transformed from a marsh into a completely marine environment.

    ECONOMIST: Flood barriers

  • The Carbon Nanostructures Consortium an industry-led, multi-sector effort established by Lockheed Martin to accelerate the development and transition of affordable, high-performance carbon nanostructure-enhanced materials.

    WHITEHOUSE: External Stakeholder Activities

  • This view, advanced by groups as diverse as Symbian (a consortium of telecoms-equipment firms and Psion, a handheld-computer maker) and Microsoft, sounds fairly plausible.

    ECONOMIST: Waves of the future

  • The Arkansas-based company is the primary funder behind the Sustainability Consortium, a multi-stakeholder initiative that is developing a sustainability index at the product level.

    FORBES: An Open Letter to the Journal: Why CSR Is Good For Shareholders and Society

  • Rosneft, a Russian firm, also wants to join Sakhalin Energy: it already has a share in another Sakhalin consortium, Sakhalin-1, where its partners are Exxon of America and Sodeco of Japan.

    ECONOMIST: Where there��s a well. . .

  • The acquisition of SunGard has opened up the possibility of far larger deals, especially with its model of a consortium of private-equity buyers combining generalist funds and a technology specialist such as Silver Lake.

    ECONOMIST: Private equity and technology

  • But Barclays has the advantage of easy maneuverability in this bid battle, something which the three-way consortium of RBS, Banco Santander Central Hispano (nyse: STD - news - people ) and Fortis (other-otc: FORSY - news - people ) lacks.

    FORBES: Barclays Wins A Round In ABN Battle

  • Britain will purchase Meteor air-to-air missiles from a European consortium rather than an off-the-shelf product from America's Raytheon.

    ECONOMIST: Terra nova

  • He is particularly focused on Navio, a consumer-software consortium recently launched by Netscape and others designed to make sure that Windows and Windows CE (its consumer-electronics cousin) do not become the standard for interactive television and game machines.

    CNN: In Search Of The Real Bill Gates

  • Since a U.S.-based consortium acquired a controlling share in the club in April 2011, the emphasis has been on entertainment and long-term growth.

    WSJ: Zdenek Zeman: The Return of Soccer's Jedi

  • Since then Ridsdale has also left Cardiff following investment from a Malaysian-based consortium, with Chan becoming chairman and Gethin Jenkins appointed as chief executive to run the club on a day-to-day basis.

    BBC: Cardiff City hold Langston debt meeting

  • Overseas visits: 9-11 September 2008, to Paris to attend the French Coalition Against Malaria Forum in my capacity as voluntary non-executive Chairman of the Malaria Consortium and Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases.

    BBC: Stephen O'Brien

  • Among the centrepieces will be Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, acquired on behalf of the museum - with the help of a consortium including Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg - earlier this year, according to industry website Deadline.

    BBC: Official press image of The Shard

  • Todd was part of the foreign-led consortium that gained control of the Pilgrims last week.

    BBC: Plymouth prepare to ring changes

  • The company is now owned by a Russian-led consortium headed by Energia Overseas Ltd.

    BBC: Sea Launch rocket company returns to service

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